Nancy Farmer (born 1941) is an American writer of children's and young adult books and science fiction.
at Reed College (1963) and later studied chemistry and entomology at the University of California, Berkeley.
[3] She enlisted in the Peace Corps (1963–1965), and subsequently worked in Mozambique and Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), where she studied biological methods of controlling the tsetse fly between 1975 and 1978.
As of 2010, Farmer lives in Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains with her husband.
[4] "The Mirror" (1987) The Ear, the Eye and the Arm (1994) A Girl Named Disaster (1996) The House of the Scorpion (2002) The Land of the Silver Apples (2007)